Boy,13, Charged With Attempted Murder Of Young Girl

Police say the youth charged with attempted murder in the brutal stabbing of a 13-year-old girl in Warman, Sask. is a 13-year-old boy.

The boy was tracked down by officers Friday night after they responded to a home in the city, located about 20 kilometres north of Saskatoon, where a girl was suffering from severe stab wounds.

Police managed to stabilize her at the scene and she was rushed to hospital by ambulance.

The girl was in stable condition on Sunday and is expected to make a full recovery.

Police said the two youths knew each other, but did not give details about their relationship.

"We just heard some noise, late at night some screaming," a next-door neighbour told CBC News. "We just thought some kids were goofing around in the back. My wife went out to the deck just to look and the young girl was just screaming for help and yelled to her mom that she'd been stabbed."

The neighbour said the girl was in the back of her house — where the girl's mother and great-grandmother went to help her.

"The incident happened behind the house, it wasn't actually in the house," the neighbour continued. "We just know the girl was there, and obviously somebody else."

The boy left the scene and was found a short time later by police.

The RCMP said it's believed the weapon used was a knife, which is consistent with the multiple wounds the girl suffered.

The youth is expected to make his first court appearance in Saskatoon Provincial Court on Monday.

Neither the suspect nor the victim can be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

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The boy apprehended in relation to the beating death of Lee Bonneau is under 12 years of age. If responsible, he will be one of the youngest killers in Canada's history and too young to face justice.

A 14-year-old Toronto boy was charged on September 5, 2013 with manslaughter in connection with the shooting death of 16-year-old Yusuf Tifow.

When a 13-year-old Alberta girl was found guilty in the 2006 murder of her eight-year-old brother and her parents, it was believed she was the youngest person in Canada to be convicted of multiple counts of first-degree murder.
The girl, who cannot be named, and her then-boyfriend Jeremy Steinke (pictured), who was 23, carried out the attack at the family’s Medicine Hat home because the parents didn't approve of her relationship.

Reena Virk was swarmed and beaten under a bridge on Vancouver Island by a group of teenagers in November 1997.
The 14-year-old got up and staggered across the bridge toward a bus stop to make her way home. Two of the original attackers dragged her back and beat Virk again, leaving her in Victoria's Gorge waterway. Police found her body eight days later.
Six girls — ages 14 to 16 — were sentenced in 1998 for their roles in the first beating. Warren Glowatski, who was 17 at the time, was convicted of second-degree murder a year later.
Pictured: Students performed the play "The Short Life and Lonely Death of Reena Virk"

One of the most high-profile international cases of children killing another child involves the 1993 beating death of two-year-old James Bulger in the United Kingdom.
Jon Venables and his friend Robert Thompson were 10 years old when they lured the toddler away from a shopping centre in Bootle, Liverpool, and beat him to death by an isolated rail line.
Pictured: The grave of toddler James Builger.

Mary Bell was 11 years old when she was sentenced to life in prison in connection with the 1968 deaths of two boys, ages three and four, in Newcastle, England.
Bell was said to have strangled Brian Howe and Martin Brown "solely for the pleasure and excitement of killing," the BBC reported.

Eight-year-old Maddie Clifton disappeared while playing in her Jacksonville, Fla., neighbourhood in November 1998.
Her body was found, bludgeoned and stabbed, a week later under the waterbed of a 14-year-old playmate who lived across the street from her home.
Joshua Phillips, who had taken part in the search for Maddie, was convicted and sentenced to life without parole in Maddie’s death.

In 2001, Lionel Tate was the youngest person to be sentenced to life in a U.S. prison, after his conviction in the death of a six-year-old girl.
Tate was 12 when Tiffany Eunick was beaten to death in Boward County, Fla., in 1999. He claimed he accidentally killed the girl while imitating pro wrestling moves from television.
Pictured: Lionel Tate